Cowl cover



July 15, 1924. 1,501,115

A. H. NANN COWL COVER Filed Feb. 24. 1923 2 Shee'ts-SheeL 1 July 15 1924. 1,501,175

A. H. NANN COWL COVER Filed Feb. 24. 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet. 2

Jnuentbr MWM Patented July 15, 1924.

ARTHUR H. NANN, OF MUNCIE, INDIANA.

COWL COVER.

, Application filed February 24, 1923.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ARTHUR H. NANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Muncie, in the county of Delaware and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cowl Covers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to covers for the cowls of automobiles, and is particularly intended as a temporary shield or guard for shipping purposes.

The object is to provide a simple and inexpensive article of this character which can be quickly applied, and will provide an effective shield or cover for the cowl or hood of an automobile.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an automobile, showing the shield or cover in place,

Figure 2 is a perspective view of said shield or cover,

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view on the line 83 of Figure 2,

Figure 4: is a plan view of one of the front corners of the cover, indicating the manner in which it is folded,

Figure 5 is a plan view of the blank for the top sheet,

Figure 6 is a similar view illustrating the manner in which the side sheets are out without waste.

In the embodiment disclosed. a top sheet 7 is employed, which is preferably formed of paper, and as illustratedin Figure 3, may comprise laminations 8 with an interposed water-proofing substance 9, constituting an adhesive for connecting the two sheets or laminations -8. Side sheets 10, similarly formed, are provided that taper from their rear to their frontends and have their upper margins turned under the margins of the top sheet, as shown at 11 in Figure 3, the margins being seamed together, preferably by glue, lines of stitching 12 'or other suitable .means. The rear ends of the side sheets 10 terminate short of the rear end of the top sheetand said top sheet at its rear end is looped about a holding rod or stretcher 13 that may be a strip of wood or the like,

The front ends of the side sheets 10, as indicated in Figure 4, extend to the front end of the top sheet 6, and a bellows fold 14 serves to cause the side sheets 10 to be disposed at substantially right angles to the top sheet 7 and the front end of said top sheet to turn down, providing a flap 15.

Serial No. 620,974.

The said folds, as will be clear by reference to Figure 2, underlies the downturned flap. 11 and the parts are secured together by eyelets 16 or other suitable fastenings. Openings 17 formedin the downturned end or flap 15 form sockets or receivers for a transverse spreader or holding rod 18 that is passed therethrough, and has its end portions extended into the folds. The rear lower corners of the side walls 10 are preferably doubled back to form reenforcements and through said corners are passed eyelets 19.

In using the device the cover is placed over the cowl asindicated in Figure 1 and the reenforcing bar 18 engaged behind the windshield. The flap formed by the projection of the rear end of the top sheet passes between the sections of the windshield. Cords as 20, fastened in the eyelets 16 and 19, and suitably secured to available parts of the automobile fasten the cover in place, the front cross rod 18 serving to hold the front end of the cover properly extended and against being crumpled or wrinkled.

In the formation of the walls the top sheet 7 is preferably out from a rectangular piece of material of standard width and the side walls, as indicated in Figure 6 may be likewise out from a strip of the same width without waste, the convergent edges extending diagonally across the sheet, leaving equal portions on opposite sides of the same. Obviously the formation of the side walls may be varied according to the particular type and formation of the automobile cowl. For example in certain instances the rear edge of the side walls should be concaved, and can be cut out as indicated by the dotted line 21 in Figure 6.

From the foregoing, it is thought that the construction, operation and many advantages of the herein described invention will be apparent to those skilled in the artwithout further description, and it will be understood that various changes in the size, shape, proportion and minor details of construction, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to se cure by Letters Patent, is

1. A. cowl cover of the character set forth, comprising a top sheet of sufiicient length to extend from the windshield of an automobile and dependently overlie the front face of the radiator, means carried by the rear end of the sheet for'engagement behind the windshield, side wall sheets depending from its opposite sides, and a stretcher bar mounted on the depending overlying front portion of the top sheetcontiguons to its upper end.

2. A cowl cover of the character set forth, comprising a top sheet of sufficient length to extend from the windshield of an automobile and overlie the front face of the radiator, means carried by the rear end of the sheet for engagement behind the wind shield, side wall sheets of less length than the top sheet and depending from its op posite sides, the front ends of the side walls being inturned and secured to the overlying front end of the top sheet, and a stretcher bar extending transversely of said overlying front end and mounted in the overlapped portions of said end and side walls.

3. A cowl cover of the character set forth, comprising a top sheet of suflieient length to extend from the windshield of an automobile and overlie the front face of the radiator, means carried by the rear end of the sheet for engagement behind the windshield, side Wall sheets of less length than the top sheet and depending from its opposite sides, the front ends of the side walls being inturned and secured to. the overlying front end of the top sheet and pro vided with openings, and a stretcher bar extending transversely of said overlying front end and engaged in said openings.

4. A cowl cover of the character set forth, comprising a top sheet, having a cross bar at its rear end for engagement behind a windshield, side sheets seamed to the top sheet, said side sheets terminating short of the cross bar and extending to the front end of the top sheet, the top sheet having its front end portion turned down to form afiap and the corresponding portions of the side Walls being folded inwardly and secured to the flap, and a holding bar extending across and engaged with the flap.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ARTHUR H. NANN. 

